Gyroscope Review 16-1 - Page 19

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by henry 7. reneau, jr.
we create only what we know will have dominion over us: the megaphone
that is the internet serving as an imaginary prosthetic
the kind of narcotic kaleidoscope of gasoline in the water cellphones
nuclear bombs democracy & the Kardashians via reality t.v. bestride us
like a colossus a monstrous animation of the institutions we create
building a giant city out of high-powered telescopes
one polygraph at a time
converting the intensities of your pulse your heart your arteries your breath
the contraction of your muscles i.e. the truth to oscillating lines on paper
always under scrutiny: the stop-less conversion of internal life
(pulse breath heat neural activity) to external data legible to processors
like the woolen overcoat of a shadow the size of a threat
as our silence mimes bravado—the hostage in the video
mouthing the Lord's Prayer most often things ending up in the wrong hands
that cause history to happen: the grasp of ego the weight of displacement
speaking in the place of someone
who is perfectly capable of speaking for themselves: why is it
that we don’t exist in history until some white guy discovers us?
a repeated lie of obscure origi